Sunday 19th May 2013 = fairly tired legs. I’ve never previous measured how far I’d ever cycled. As a child, teenager and young adult I was more in to bunny hops than figure hugging tights. However, my fairly recent re-interest in mountain biking has led to more miles in my legs, and I’m glad of [...]
September 2nd 2009: the first Wednesday of the month was the first session of Banstead TaeKwon-Do, I was a 3rd Degree Blackbelt at the time and had worked hard to set up a TaeKwon-Do school. I started as I meant to go on: 6pm Tiny TKD’ers 6:30pm Juniors TaeKwon-Do 7:30pm Seniors TaeKwon-D0 Here is a [...]
From Left: Mr Steven Elliot, Master R. Dennis, Mr James Davis Since I started TaeKwon-Do training in 1995 in Scotland there was always a special feeling when being taught by an instructor with stripes on their Dobok, i.e. a 4th Degree Black belt or above and rightly so, 4th Degree is the beginning of the [...]
I love being part of Big TaeKwon-Do events like the International Instructors Course (IIC). I’ve only been to one IIC before, Belgium 2007, and it was a blast so when the chance came up for one this year and in LONDON it was a MUST ATTEND event. During my time in TaeKwon-Do I have lived [...]
Over my time training in TaeKwon-Do I have experienced quite a few different instructors and even trained in some other Martial Arts too. I have been taught, learnt and practiced different principles of applying TKD techniques to self defence, whether that be an unarmed or armed (impact or edged) attacker. I very much believe that [...]
TaeKwon-Do is for all ages. See my January 2012 Page for more details
TriggerPoint Therapy Training On September 16th 2011 I went to the Fulham Fitrooms to attend the Trigger Point Performance Therapy Ultimate 6+ Training Course taught by Jonathan Lewis from Balance Performance Physiotherapy, a TPT Master Trainer. This was a half day hands on course in which I learnt about the key areas of the human [...]
I have always thought that as a club we could do good for our community rather than only doing good for ourselves and our first venture as a group was October 14th where the Priory School in Banstead held a 24 hour charity 5-a-side football event which was extremely well attended by school boys, teachers, [...]
On behalf of everyone at Banstead TaeKwon-Do I would like to congratulate Russell Dennis, our grading examiner and my instructor, on his promotion to 7th Degree Blackbelt and Master in ITF TaeKwon-Do. Master Dennis travelled to the 62th International Instructors Course at Riccione in Italy and took part in 3 days of training over the [...]
New TaeKwon-Do Classes at Greenacre School in Banstead Just before the Easter Holidays (2011) I was approached by Greenacre School about the possibility of starting an afterschool Martial Arts club, Martial Arts had been an activity the girls had been asking the school to provide for a while. After an initial meeting to discuss the [...]
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